Thursday, March 21, 2013

Baseball Cards in Song Lyrics

The title says it all. Can you think of any songs with baseball cards in the lyrics?

Here's one....

Ageless rock band Chicago references the cardboard collectibles in their 1975 single "Old Days".

According to the Wikipedia page the song was written by James Pankow for the band and sung by Peter Cetera. Quite interestingly, Cetera despised singing it because of the reference to the Howdy Doody show which he hated.

Baseball cards at 0:45

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I've heard the song many times, and but for some reason it really jumped out at me lately and made me wonder if there were more.

Searching for others led to the discovery of a song titled "Baseball Cards" by the Wavves a San Diego based surf-noise rock band. Strangely the song makes no reference to cards or baseball at all.

Further the post-rock-emo outfit The Appleseed Cast recorded the song "Marigold and Patchwork" in 1998 and it contains a reference to hearing baseball cards roaring in the spokes of a bicycle, (2:16, listen here).